Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 523
rt,ready, as before, upon the slightest farther advance, to admit the steam to the cylinder. Now, as thevalve is thus required to move through a part of its travel or throw equal to the overlap at each end.and as the throw is equal to the diameter of the circle which the eccentric describes, it… … On the remote side of the centre of the crank-shaft, and on the line of centres, mark off D C, theamount of overlap at each end of the valve, and draw a line parallel to E F, the vertical centre line ofthe crank-shaft; the arc of the eccentric circle intercepted between these parallel lines is that…
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